 Hi there. I hope you'll forgive me because when I read children's books I tend to kind of go into that, you know, reading to children books and don't take it personally. The book I chose was Entango Makes Three. Entango Makes Three is about an untraditional family and I was raised in an untraditional family. I was raised by a single father, my brother and I, and in a time when fathers did not raise their children, especially daughters on their own. So this has special meaning to me because it is about untraditional families. So a little bit of background about the book. It's a true story about two male penguins, two male chinstrap penguins in the New York City Central Park Zoo who were a couple. They demonstrated affection for each other and they were insufferable for a long time. And then what happened, in the zoo there are all kinds of animal families, but Tango's family is not like any of the others. In New York City there's a great big park called Central Park. Children love to play there. It has a toy boat pond where they can sail the boats. It has a carousel to ride on in the summer in an ice room to skate on in the winter. Best of all it has its very own zoo. Everyday families of all kinds go to visit the animals that live there. But children and their parents aren't the only families in the zoo. The animals make families of their own. There are a red panda of their families with mothers and fathers and furry red panda bear cubs. There are monkey dads and monkey moms raising noise in monkey babies. There are toad families and toucan families and cotton-talked tamarin families too. And in the penguin house there are penguin families. Every year at the same time the girl penguins start noticing the boy penguins and the boy penguins start noticing the girl penguins. When the right girl and the right boy find each other they become a couple. Two penguins in the penguin house were a little bit different. One was named Roy and the other was named Silo. Roy and Silo were both boys but they did everything together. They bowed to each other and they walked together. They sang to each other and swam together. Wherever Roy went Silo went too. They didn't spend much time with the girl penguins and the girl penguins didn't spend much time with them. Instead Roy and Silo wound their necks around each other. Their keeper Mr. Graham noticed the two penguins and fought to himself. They must be in love. Roy and Silo watched how the other penguins made a home so they built an nest of stones for themselves. Every night Roy and Silo slept there together just like the other penguin couples. And every morning Roy and Silo woke up together. But one day Roy and Silo saw that the other couples could do something that they could not. The mama penguin would lay an egg. She and the papa penguin would take turns keeping the egg warm until finally it would hatch. And there would be a baby penguin. Roy and Silo had no egg to sit on and keep warm. They had no baby chip to feed and cuddle and love. Their nest was nice but it was a little empty. One day Roy found something that looked like what the other penguins were hatching and he brought it to their nest. It was only a rock but Silo carefully sat on it and sat and sat. When Silo got sleepy he slept and when Silo was done sleeping and sitting he swam and Roy sat. Day after day Silo and Roy sat on the rock but nothing happened. Then Mr. Gramsley got an idea. He found an egg that needed to be cared for and he brought it to Roy and Silo's nest. Roy and Silo knew just what to do. They moved the egg to the center of their nest. Every day they turned it so each side stayed warm. Some days Roy sat while Silo went for food. Other days it was Silo's turn to take care of their egg. They sat in the morning, they sat at night, they sat through lunch time and swim time and supper. They sat at the beginning of the month and they sat at the end of the month and they sat all of the days in between. Until one day they heard a sound coming from inside their egg. Beep beep beep beep said. Roy and Silo called back. Swap swap beep beep answered the egg. Suddenly a tiny hole appeared in the egg shell and then out came the very old baby. She had fuzzy white feathers and a funny black beak. Now Roy and Silo were fathers. We'll call her Tango Mr. Gramsley decided because it takes two to make a tango. Roy and Silo taught Tango how to sing for them when she was hungry. They fed her food from their beaks. They snuggled her in their nest at night. Tango was the very first penguin in the zoo to have two daddies. Soon Tango grew strong enough to leave the nest. Roy and Silo took her for a swim just like all the other penguin families. And all the children who came to the zoo could see Tango and her two fathers playing in the penguin house with the other penguins. Hooray Roy! Hooray Silo! Welcome Tango! At night the three penguins returned to their nest. They snuggled each other and like all the other penguins in the penguin house and all the other animals in the zoo. And all the other families in the big city around them. They went to sleep. It's because I feel that the people who love you are your family. Your parents, your friends, your grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins. It's what makes a family. You make a family. And that there's all kinds of love in a family and there's rooms for all kinds of love. So that's it. Thank you.